Business to get mugged by Boris Johnson
Business to get mugged by Boris Johnson
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2mad

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180 posts

200 months

Monday 4th April 2011
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Just learnt that around 70,000 vans will have to be replaced by next year to comply with London Low Emission Zone lez . With £1.40 a ltr for fuel and £50.00 a week con charge to drive into London i think this is taking the mik ,Its not as if Business is booming unless your a van dealer.Looks like inflation wont be coming down for some time.Thank god i live in a free country where I'm not told what to do by Communists a Boris.

eldar

24,805 posts

217 months

Monday 4th April 2011
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The joys of London. Cost just gets passed on.

cardigankid

8,861 posts

233 months

Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Its not just London.

We all pay a minimum of 40% tax when to take into account the 'National Insurance' rip off. Ignoring the fact that we are forced to overcharge our customers by 20% and pass the resulting money on to HM Govt, we then pay 20% of most of what we buy in further tax (and on some things, including cars, fuel and booze a great deal more).

Out of what is left of our taxed income, we then pay council tax, road tax, TV Licences and any carbon swindle they can dream up.

As a proportion of our real income the amount these thieving parasites take is outrageous, and do they care as long as their privileged lifestyles and that of their wealthy mates is not affected. This applies equally to Tories, Labour and Lib Dems. Most of Labour's key players are Oxbridge types just the same as Boris, so they are hypocrites as well.

steveatesh

5,291 posts

185 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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you forgot the stealth taxes on energy - the so called feed in tariffs and the newest one in the last budget, the £16 per tonne on Carbon Dioxide which is going to hammer business too and no doubt be passed on.
Strange that we don't hear them mentioned so much by this or the previous government. The carbon Floor Price was in the small print and not even mentioned. Appears that we are acting unilaterally on this as a country so making our poor businesses less competitive.

snapdragon69

207 posts

204 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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It's the EU again. You will see it rolled out nationally in years to come.
Funny how this is happening in all EU Capitals simultaneously just as the cigar ban happened in all EU countries at the same time.

Soovy

35,829 posts

292 months

Thursday 7th April 2011
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LEZ has been around for years.

Have you just realised? Was Red Ken who done it.

cardigankid

8,861 posts

233 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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And Boris 'the Banker's Friend' who kept it.

sl0wlane

669 posts

214 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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cardigankid said:
Its not just London.

We all pay a minimum of 40% tax when to take into account the 'National Insurance' rip off. Ignoring the fact that we are forced to overcharge our customers by 20% and pass the resulting money on to HM Govt, we then pay 20% of most of what we buy in further tax (and on some things, including cars, fuel and booze a great deal more).

Out of what is left of our taxed income, we then pay council tax, road tax, TV Licences and any carbon swindle they can dream up.

As a proportion of our real income the amount these thieving parasites take is outrageous, and do they care as long as their privileged lifestyles and that of their wealthy mates is not affected. This applies equally to Tories, Labour and Lib Dems. Most of Labour's key players are Oxbridge types just the same as Boris, so they are hypocrites as well.
Bang on!

It almost makes crime look appealing simply for the tax saving.

cardigankid

8,861 posts

233 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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And even then when they are robbing us all blind they can't make the books balance. And we have to shell out £5bn more we haven't got because of commitments the Government have made to Europe, presumably in the hope that when our turn comes someone will bail us out, because I am quite sure this can't go on.